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Show PAINTS STRIPES ON HOUSE Tmant Decorates Home with Bed, White and Blue and Landlord Issues New Leas. A man recently took a house upon a lease In a certain crescent In London without examining the terms of his agreement as closely as he should. After a time the landlord called upon him and pointed out that he was bound to do all the outside painting at certain cer-tain Intervals Ho protestod, but It was "so nominated In the bond," and there was no help for him. After a Rood deal of thought he hired painters and directed di-rected them to paint the whole front of the- house red, white and blue In stripes. When It was finished the neighborhood It was a fashionable part was up In arms and the. landlord was franUc. The tenant politely explained ex-plained to him th.at there was nothing In the agreement about the color, and that reh whlto-anrt blue, In stripes, was his favorite combination, but he thought he might, perhaps, be better pleased -wltli ilia'palnUtig ot tho bsck,. .njiIch,hepNDeed to-eolorgreen'wlth yellow spots. The landlord, who well knew that not another house coi'd be let In the crescent If ho carried out his threat, nearly had a lit at the Idea, and within a week the tenant had a new lease, in which tho landlord undertook un-dertook to dq all the outside painting hlmiolf. |